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EARL DENET....Earl began carving in the old style when others in his family started carving these dolls. Urged by his father, Joseph, who always encouraged his sons and nephews to carry on the traditional ways, Earl's dolls represent the actual kachinas as they would appear in his village of Sichomovi.

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PATSSI VALDEZ...Born 1951...sought a contemporary vision of Chicano women, which she juxtaposed against Hollywood ideals of glamour....paintings imbued with an emotive spirit reminiscent of the magic-realists....

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FREDERICO VIGIL......BORN 1946 in Santa Fe has been very active in a group of Hispanic artists, La Confradia, that formed in 1978 to show their own work outside of the established Santa Fe "art scene," from which they felt excluded.

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HELEN HARDIN.........1943-1984.....breaking free of the traditional mold, Helen's work became strongly geometric and increasingly abstract. Her work frequently incorporated Mimbres and Anasazi figures and kachina forms and masks

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LARRY BELL..... (Born 1939..... alters and manipulates the perceptions of his spectators, and challenges their conception of visual space and their relationship to it. Bell lives and works in Taos, New Mexico.

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PATRICK MCFARLIN....... Born 1939 .....In 1990 Patrick moved to Santa Fe. In 1993 he began painting portraits of friends in his Santa Fe studio, named “Pat's Downtown Club,” which became a center for artistic collaboration

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GENE KLOSS...... (1903-1996)....... attended many ceremonies at Taos, Cochiti, San Felipe, Santa Ana and Santo Domingo. Gene politely refrained from sketching during ceremonies, but she had an acute visual memory and was always welcome in the pueblos to sketch when no ceremony was being held.

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RICHARD DIEBENKORN....(1922-1993)...Critics persist in referring to Diebenkorn's early work as "abstract expressionism." It does indeed respond to the art of older figures of the New York School, such as Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Arshile Gorky (1904-1948). But Diebenkorn's New Mexico-period work pretty consistently lacks the sense of emotional eruption that might justify calling it expressionistic.

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FLORENCE PIERCE .......1918-2007........Moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1936 to study at Emil Bisttrams School of Art.
There she met her husband, Horace Towner Pierce, who was one of the founders of the New Mexico Transcendentalist Painting Group, a group committed to abstract art. She was their youngest member (1938-1941).

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VIRGINIA MORE ROEDIGER....began studying Pueblo dances in 1925 when she drove out west for college. She wrote Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians as her dissertation in the School of Drama at Yale University

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BARBARA LATHAM......1896-1989...... In 1925, Latham moved to Taos, New Mexico where she lived with her artist husband, Howard Cook. While in New Mexico Latham concentrated her energies on the landscape near her home and on the Native American genre paintings for which she’s most recognized.

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TONITA PENA... (1895-1949)....Quah Ah (White Coral Beads) was the first Pueblo woman artist to throw off the traditional restrictions that were usually imposed upon women in Pueblo culture...Her own determination to succeed, combined with her very remarkable talent, enabled her to make a substantial contribution to the world of Indian art.

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EMIL BISTRAM....(1895-1976)......In Taos, New Mexico ... “Whenever I tried to paint what was before me I was frustrated by the grandeur of the scenery and the limitless space. Above all a strange, almost mystic quality of light.”

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TOMAS VIGIL...- Pan Yo Pin (Tesuque).. (c. 1889-1960)...Tomas Vigil was one of the earliest 20th century pueblo painters, with most of his works produced between 1920 and 1950. A self-taught artist, his works captured the customs of the Tesuque with rigid accuracy and detail.

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE........1887-1986.....D. H. Lawrence phrased it best while residing in Taos in the 1920s:.....white people still haven't got the rhythm of America, the perfect rhythm of American earth. The Indians have had it so long, maybe they're in danger of losing it. The new revelation will come when the white people, when some white Woman gets the perfect rhythm of the American earth.

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WILLLIAM HERVERT 'Buck' DUNTON......1878-1936......He first visited the village of Taos, New Mexico in 1912, moved there permanently in 1914, and, in 1925, became a founding member of the first artist colony west of the Mississippi.

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OSCAR BERNINGHAUS......1874-1952......his artistic instincts led to the depiction of commonplace incidents and scenes of daily life, in contrast to the dramatic western conflicts created by such artists as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell

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ERNEST BLUMENSCHEIN....1874-1960]....Taos Society of Artists founder...
Ernest L. Blumenschein was far and away the most well known of the Taos painters during his lifetime. His painstakingly executed canvases, in his distinctive style that was first called “post-impressionist” and later modernist, garnered him a wide and appreciative audience, and numerous awards. he most ions in the